As a young teenager, Julian Pinnix-Odrick couldn’t get enough of Penn State. Game after game, he made a living in Beaver Stadium cheering on his older half-brother, Jared Odrick, who starred as a defensive tackle with the Nittany Lions from 2006 to 2009 and now plays for the Miami Dolphins.

If there’s any question of how much Paul James means to the Rutgers football team, consider this: The junior running back is on pace to set a school record with 39 touchdowns this season, and that’s if the Scarlet Knights don’t reach a bowl game.

When Rutgers football alumnus placekicker Jeremy Ito drilled a 28-yard game-winning field goal in 2006 in Rutgers’ upset of then-No. 3 Louisville, the whole stadium erupted and swarmed the field to celebrate the kick and the Scarlet Knights’ victory.

Head coach Kyle Flood said it was “difficult to watch” the video released yesterday by TMZ showing Ray Rice punching his fiancee inside of an elevator in February. The NFL has suspended him indefinitely.

Seventeen
months after a leaked video cost Mike Rice his job at Rutgers, Ray Rice has met
the same fate in the NFL.The
Baltimore Ravens released the running back this afternoon, just hours after a
video published by TMZ revealed Rice punching his then-fiancee Janay Palmer
back on Feb.

The Rutgers football team’s defense succeeded in some aspects of the game Saturday against Howard, getting to the quarterback and forcing him out of the pocket, but also surrendered an unexpected 25 points on 427 total yards to the FCS school.